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$85 billion cut from US budget

President Barack Obama signed an order authorising the US government to begin cutting $85 billion (£57bn) from federal accounts. By so doing he officially enacted across-the-board reductions that he was opposed but failed to avoid.

Republicans and Democrats take battle to Twitter

As the deadline looms for sequestration to come into effect and bring with it across-the-board budget cuts, both the Republican and Democrat parties have taken to Twitter to express their side of the story: